A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nightclub-managing, drug-dealing gangster Uchida is the prime suspect in the case until he commits suicide. Kobayashi then discovers evidence that points to the doctor sibling of an innocent girl. The climax in a rural snowy locale is suspenseful and well-staged.
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
When two brothers steal a valuable heirloom from an elderly Japanese woman, they unknowingly awaken ...
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou...
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ranso...
After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other...
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an adv...
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kur...
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher...
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster emplo...
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorne...
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the ...
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange f...
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a despe...
The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ...
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin...
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man di...
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. Howeve...